Philip Larkin Life Quotations

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.

In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love. / To some it means the difference they could make / By loving others, but across most it sweeps / As all they might have done had they been loved. / That nothing cures.

Life is first boredom, then fear,

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

...the breath that sharpens life is life itself...

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.